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Various Passeriformes (perching birds) are commonly referred to as warblers. They are not necessarily closely related to one another, but share some characteristics, such as being fairly small, vocal, and insectivorous.
Various Passeriformes (perching birds) are commonly referred to as warblers. They are not necessarily closely related to one another, but share some characteristics, such as being fairly small, vocal, and insectivorous.
Sylvioid warblers
These are somewhat more closely related to each other than to other warblers. They belong to a superfamily also containing Old World babblers,bulbul
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s, etc.
* " Old World warblers", formerly all in family Sylviidae
** Leaf warblers, now in family Phylloscopidae
** Typical bush warblers, now in family Cettiidae
** Grass warblers and megalurid bush-warblers, now in family Locustellidae
** Marsh
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and tree warblers, now in family Acrocephalidae
** True warblers or sylviid warblers, remaining in family Sylviidae or moved into the Timaliidae
** Cisticolid warblers, family Cisticolidae
* Malagasy warblers, the newly assembled family Bernieridae
Passeroid warblers
The two families of American warblers are part of another superfamily, which unites them withsparrow
Sparrow may refer to:
Birds
* Old World sparrows, family Passeridae
* New World sparrows, family Passerellidae
* two species in the Passerine family Estrildidae:
** Java sparrow
** Timor sparrow
* Hedge sparrow, also known as the dunnock or hedg ...
s, buntings, finches, etc.
* Olive warbler, monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...
family Peucedramidae
* New World warblers, family Parulidae
Other
* Tit-warblers or flycatcher-tits, familyStenostiridae
Stenostiridae, or the fairy flycatchers, are a family of small passerine birds proposed as a result of recent discoveries in molecular systematics.Beresford ''et al.'' (2005) They are also referred to as stenostirid warblers.
Taxonomy and system ...
These are closely related to the titmice and chickadees
* Australasian warblers, family Acanthizidae
These are the most distinct group of warblers. They are not closely related at all to the others, but rather to the honeyeaters and fairy-wrens.
* Hawaiian honeycreeper—''warbler-niched''-( adaptive radiation), genus '' H. virens''–common amakihi
Common may refer to:
Places
* Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
* Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts
* Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Clapham Common, originally com ...
. Wilson, Eisner, Briggs, Dickerson, Metzenberg, O'Brien, Susman, & Boggs. ''Life on Earth'', Chapter: Biogeography, Graphic: Hawaiian Honeycreepers, p. 857. (See: List of adaptive radiated honeycreepers)
References
*Wilson, Eisner, Briggs, Dickerson, Metzenberg, O'Brien, Susman, & Boggs. ''Life on Earth'', Edward O. Wilson, Thomas Eisner, Winslow R. Briggs, Richard E. Dickerson, Robert L. Metzenberg, Richard D. O'Brien, Millard Susman, William E. Boggs, c 1973, Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publisher, Stamford, Connecticut. (hardcover, ) {{Animal common name Passeriformes Bird common names